Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGill game was featured by the strong comeback of the Crimson puck chasers when, in the last ten minutes of the third period, they stormed the Canadian goal keeper with two sizzling shots which tied the game. In the overtime period John Tudor '29 took a rebound from one of F. R. G. Giddens '30 numerous tries at the Canadian goal and slipped it past Kline who had replaced Powers star cageman for the McGill combination...
...whistle blows, by virtue of his spectacular playing on Monday night, Harvard is expected to start the above combination. The Crimson outfit is eager to avenge the defeat earlier in the week but it will have to play superlative hockey in order to stop the brilliant attack of the Canadian forward line. In Monday night's game the Toronto defense proved to be a formidable bulwark against the Crimson offense despite the versatile showing of most of the forward linemen...
Some 5,000 Canadian and U. S. scientists closed their classes and laboratories last week, and hastened to Manhattan for the regular Christmas convocation of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some 2,000 had papers to read on their 15 specialties.* Reading those papers, the mosaic of 1928 developments in pure and applied science, would place the workers on little eminences among their colleagues. Better, it would put them near the Olympians of their profession who attended sessions with them, men like...
Zeus of all those Olympians is of course Henry Fairfield Osborn, 71, president of the American Association. That presidency is the highest honor that U. S. and Canadian scientists can give a colleague. Yet its tenure is for only one year and a man must have a permanent post. What such post any one scientist considers best is hard to indicate. Generally the secretaryship of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington is best esteemed. To that secretaryship the Institution elected Dr. Osborn in 1906, upon the death of Samuel Pierpont Langley. Dr. Osborn declined. He preferred to stay on as assistant...
Only one major South American telephone company remains outside I. T. & T. control. Canadian-owned, this company operates from Rio de Janeiro, is the largest on the continent. It would be rash to forecast the plans of silent Col. Sosthenes Behn. But no one would be surprised if the next purchase by I. T. & T. carried its network into Rio de Janeiro...